35 bedrooms villa, 8500 m²

Contigliano, Rieti (province)

This place is now a Historical Residence along the Saint Francis Walk. A historical residence in Lazio, it is a heritage of beauty. A place brought back to life after a long restoration, which has maintained and enhanced its original historical appearance.
Located in a private park of 4 hectares, it has a parking area for over 100 cars and an approved project for helicopter parking.
The flats are all equipped with a kitchenette, refrigerator and private bathroom with shower or bathtub (also hydro-massage), hairdryer and underfloor heating. Breakfast is included. Some have working fireplaces and frescoes that give the rooms an old-world charm. The materials, skilfully used by local craftsmen, are all valuable and respect the context.
The complex, the grandest conventual monument that the surroundings of Rieti can boast, represents a fusion of Gothic and Romanesque styles, and is built according to the typical plan of the abbeys of the Cistercian Order of the 13th century, with a large church in the shape of a Latin cross and with chapels adjacent to the choir. In fine weather it is possible to enjoy the enchanting view over the Sacred Rieti Valley, under the fragrant pergola of strawberry grapes; in the winter evenings one can sit inside to warm oneself in front of the large fireplace. A place immersed in nature, 'below the snows and above the fogs, guarding the Rieti plain'.
This magnificent structure regains the splendour that belonged to it and that for hundreds of years had been hidden by the neglect of time, ivy and brambles.
Restoration work has been carried out since 1996
One of the most interesting and extraordinary projects ever undertaken in the province of Rieti.


Territory:
The territorial abbey of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata (Latin: Abbatia territorialis B. Mariae Cryptaeferratae), also known as the Greek Abbey of San Nilo,[1][2] is a see of the Byzantine Catholic Church in Italy belonging to the ecclesiastical region Lazio. In 2019 it had 6 baptised people out of 6 inhabitants. The see is vacant.
The monks of the Exarchic Monastery, forming the Italian Congregation of Basilian Monks (O.S.B.I.), are mostly from the Italo-Albanian communities and practise liturgy and tradition according to the Byzantine rite. Today, Grottaferrata Abbey is the last of the many Byzantine monasteries that were spread throughout southern Italy and the Roman capital itself in the Middle Ages. It is also unique in that, founded fifty years before the schism that led to the separation of the Churches of Rome and Constantinople, it has always been in communion with the Bishop of Rome, while preserving the Byzantine-Greek rite and the Eastern monastic tradition of its origins.